Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates
Editor: Alice Bloch and Giorgia Donà
Publisher: Routledge
Print Length: 190 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Science, Political Science
Area: Greece, Mediterranean
Topic: Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Refugees & Forced Migration, Exile & Exodus, Mobility & Immobility, Immigration Control, Asylum & Refugee System, Immigration System, Research, Scholarship & Knowledge, Policy & Practice, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Security , Technology & Surveillance, Digital, Fundamental Rights and Liberties, Human Rights, Protracted Refugee Situations, Borders, City & Urban, Refugee Urban Settlement, Deportation, Refugee Repatriation, Protection, Second-Generation Migrant/Refugee, Emotions & Feelings, The Notion of Home, Transnationalism, History, Challenges & Opportunities, Future Scenarios
Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates provides a critical engagement with and analysis of contemporary issues in the field using inter-disciplinary perspectives, through different geographical case studies and by employing varying methodologies. The combination of authors reviewing both the key research and scholarship and offering insights from their own research ensures a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the current issues in forced migration.
The book is structured around three main current themes: the reconfiguration of borders including virtual borders, the expansion of prolonged exile, and changes in protection and access to rights. The first chapters in the collection provide both context and a theoretical overview by situating current debates and issues in their historical context including the evolution of the field and the impact of the colonial and post-colonial world order on forced migration and forced displacement. These are followed by chapters framed around substantive issues including deportation and forced return; protracted displacements; securitising the Mediterranean and cross-border migration practices; refugees in global cities; forced migrants in the digital age; and second-generation identity and transnational practices.
Forced Migration offers an original contribution to a growing field of study, connecting theoretical ideas and empirical research with policy, practice and the lived experiences of forced migrants. The volume provides a solid foundation, for students, academics and policy makers, of the main questions being asked in contemporary debates in forced migration.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations and tables
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1. Forced Migration: Setting the Scene — Alice Bloch and Giorgia Donà
2. Conceptualising Forced Migration: Praxis, Scholarship and Empirics — Roger Zetter
3. Why Critical Forced Migration Studies has to be Post-colonial by Nature — Paula Banerjee and Ranabir Samaddar
4. Securitising the Mediterranean? Cross-border Migration Practices in Greece — Eftihia Voutira
5. Protracted Displacement: Living on the Edge — Jennifer Hyndman and Wenona Giles
6. Deportation and Forced Return — Nassim Majidi and Liza Schuster
7. Displacement and the Pursuit of Urban Protection: Forced Migration, Fluidity and Global Cities — Loren B Landau
8. Mobile Technologies and Forced Migration — Giorgia Donà and Marie Godin
9. Second Generation from Refugee Backgrounds: Affects and Transnational Ties and Practices to the Ancestral Homeland — Milena Chimienti, Anne-Laure Counilh and Laurence Ossipow
10. Reflecting on the Past, Thinking about the Future: Forced Migration in the 21st Century — Giorgia Donà and Alice Bloch
Index
Alice Bloch is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. Her current research, ‘Descendants of Holocaust survivors and the concentration camp tattoo’ is funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme small grants scheme. The research focuses on memory, memorialization and inter-generational story telling and silences through the lens of the tattoo inked on the descendants of Holocaust survivors. Through the genealogy of the tattoo, the study explores inter and cross-generational memory and private and public memorialization. The project builds on an earlier collaborative research, ‘Children of Refugees in Europe’, with Professor Milena Chimienti (HES-SO Geneva) and Professor Catherine Withol de Wenden (Sciences Po Paris) funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies. Alice has undertaken a number of research projects including research for the Department for Work and Pensions, International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Paul Hamyln Foundation and an ESRC funded project with Professor Sonia McKay, resulted in a book titled ‘Living on the Margins: Undocumented migrants in a global city’ (with Sonia McKay Policy Press, 2016). She also authored ‘Sans Papiers: The social and economic lives of young undocumented migrants in the UK’ (with Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Pluto Press, 2014) and edited ‘Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates’, (with Giorgia Dona, Routledge, 2019).
Source: https://theconversation.com/profiles/alice-bloch-1451307 & https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/alice.bloch
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Giorgia Donà is Professor of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies at University of East London, co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. For more than three decades she has worked as a researcher, practitioner and activist with displaced populations and refugees in Central and North America, Eastern Africa, and Europe. Her research focuses on conflict and displacement, child and youth migration, psycho-social perspectives in forced migration, refugee voices and representation, and multi-modal narratives. She has held positions at the Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Programme, the Child Studies Unit of University College Cork, Ireland, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Giorgia has undertaken consultancy work for UNICEF, the IOM, governments, and non-governmental organisations, and her research has been funded by, amongst others, the European Community, the Leverhulme Trust, the UK Department for International Development and the UK Department of Health.
Source: https://uel.ac.uk/about-uel/staff/giorgia-dona
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